Barbara Ehrenreich Quote

The organization of lab work was, and still is, entirely feudal. A lab was not only a place or a room or series of rooms, it was the fiefdom of a particular scientist. To go into a lab as a grad student was to apprentice yourself to this scientist, with the idea that you would, after several years of patient toil, ascend to a similar rank yourself, at which point you would be able to offload the manual labor to people more junior than yourself.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The organization of lab work was, and still is, entirely feudal. A lab was not only a place or a room or series of rooms, it was the fiefdom of a particular scientist. To go into a lab as a grad student was to apprentice yourself to this scientist, with the idea that you would, after several years of patient toil, ascend to a similar rank yourself, at which point you would be able to offload the manual labor to people more junior than yourself.

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